Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-13
THE NEWS OF MANCHESTER.
Meeting or the CITY Council To-
Nigbt-Othcr Items. .

meetiuE OF the eftf souHth ~
Nigbt-Other Items.
A regular meeting of the City Coun-
Gil will be held at 8 o'clock tonight
There are several important matters to
engage the attention of our city law
makers, and the attendance, if as de-
served, will be large.
One OF the first matters to be brought
to the attention OF the body is the Pc
! tition of the Manchester Railway and
Improvement Company asking to be
| permitted to lay its tracks and run
street-cars on certain streets of the city.
The route of this road has been pub
hshed in the Dispatch several
times. The Council has at n
called meeting virtually agreedto grant
the franchises asked for, but under the
law it was obliged to lie over for one
month. The corporators of the COM
pany are Messrs James l.. Robertson,
Charles W. Turner, Benjamin b. Wei
siger, of this city; Major b. H.
Nash, OF Richmond, and Mr.
Ackley, Of Maryland. AS soon
as the right of way here is granted the
projectors of the scheme will set to
work in Richmond to obtain permission
10 construct and operate their railway
from Mayo's bridge out Fourteenth
street to Main.
One of the corporators said to Dis
pGtch reporter yesterday that there
will be no difficulty about passing over
Mayos bridge, and while some Objec-
ton hes been raised by the merchants
on Fourteenth street about its running
down there, it is thought this can be
easily overcome.
The Richmond and Manchester
street-railway has proved a profitable
investment, and there is no reason why
another one may not do equally as
we'll without at all iniuring it or lessen
ing its success. The proposed new line,
il built, will run on entirely different
streets from the ones trayersed by the
present one, will reach Richmond by
another route and at entirely diff
ferent points, and will serve in
a great measure the people who
are not situated convenient to the pres
ent road. The enterprise now in exist
ence has done much toward building
up Manchester and increasing her ma
terial wealth, and with another such
there is no telling how large town we
will soon have.
STREET PAVING ORDINANCE.
/. Another subject in which there is
much interest felt that will probably be
called up tonight is the street-paying
ordinance. This measure, which, like
all others, has both advocates and OPP
ponents, has been quietly slumbering
in the Council for many months, and
that body has seemed 10th to take hold
OF it.
The ordinance provides that when
the city paves a street-rather the side
walk-the persons owning property
thereon shall bear the expense, each OF
the paving and euttering in front of his
property, the cost to be paid to the city
III annual instalments running for some
twenty or twenty-five years.
When the ordinance comes up, let 1t
be tonight or at some time in the far
distant but promising future, amend
ments will be offered to it so as to
make provision for vacant lots and to
so provide for the cross streets that
persons owning corner lots will not be
subjected to the unjust and heavy tax
of paying the cost of paving both IN
front and along the entire side OF his
property. Our citizens are hopeful
that either this or some other mode Of
raving our muddy and at times almost
impossible sidewalks will be adopted.
The school-building question will
probably be taken mp. The present
qualters-the best that the board could
possibly provide-are totally untitled
for the uses to which they are put.
CHESTERFIELD COURTS.
The Chesterfield County Court
Judge William |. Clopton-will be in
session to-day, when the road
commissioners appointed on Mon
day are expected to qualify
in fact, the court has held open
for that purpose. There have been no
criminal cases tried at this term, but a
large quantity of civil and chancery
business has been disposed of.
The Circuit Court-Judge b. A. Han
Geek presiding-is still ihsession fear-
ing civil and chancery cases. Judge
Irving Will hold special term of this
court, commencing the Sth of June, to
try cases in which Judge Hancock pre-
fers not sitting.
The bill to prescribe the times for
holding the courts in this circuit has
passed both branches of the General
Assembly. The bill, which was pub.
lished in the Dispatch the day after it
passed the Senate, only changes the
times for holding the coults to better
suit Judge Hancock, but does not affect
the number of terms TO be held each
year. He has to hold three terms IN
the city of Petersburg and two in each
county every year.
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
DR.. A. Monteiro, late second assist
ant superintendent of the Williams
burg Asylum, and formerly of this city,
yesterday received an appointment
from the Government as quarantine
inspector at Ship island, near New Or
leans. Doctor Monteiro has many
friends here who are pleased to hear OF
his good fortune. He leaves for his
post of duty in a few days.
The fight over the Office of Common
wealth's attorney for the county be-
tween Messrs. Cogbill endorsed by the
Democrats), Fitzpatrick endorsed by
the Republicans), and ex-Judge Greg
cry NndependeHt), who is popular with
ali, grows more interesting Us the elec-
ton approaches.
The river continues exceedingly
MUDDY. but the clusters Of trees on tine
slanGs, clothed in their mantel of vel
vety green, present lovely appear
ance, especially under the rays of the
setting sun. Many people resort to
the bridges in the afternoons to view
the most attractive scenery which the
river presents Just now.
A stated convocation of Manchester
Royal Arch Chapter was held IN Ma
sonic Hall, on Fifth street, last night.
There were several members OF the
craft present from Richmond, and the
evening was much enjoyed.
DR.. T. z. Mathews has returned
from Louisville. KY, where he went as
a delegate from the Bainbridge-Street
Baptist church, of this city, to the
Southern Baptist Convention. He